slit scan

[James Houghtaling]

I don’t know but I’d love to see this effect in a plugin. I have BCC8 and it’s got some temporal effects but nothing like this.

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My Hardware:
Core i7 2.67GHz; Nvidia GTX580, 12 gig RAM Win7 64bit.

My Software:
Vegas Pro V11 with Boris Continuum Complete 8, VASST Ultimate S; Bluff Titler; AE5; PhotoPaint and other stuff.

[Roger Bansemer]

I haven’t been able to find out much more information about slit scan but I did get this information in an email. The explaination does not make much sense to me though.
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Slit-scan video transforms everyday scenes by elongating, compressing, and twisting elements into trippy dreamscapes. This one was made with an inexpensive Mac app.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slit-scan-movie-maker/id493342965?mt=12

Kamil Sladek explains how it works on Gizmodo:

You can make your own slit camera out of any video capable digital camera with a regular sensor and a regular lens. All you need to do is the following:
1. record a video of your action
2. extract each frame as an individual image (the opposite to what you would do for a time lapse)
3. extract a vertical single pixel wide line from each image (for example a line from the center)
4. stack those lines horizontally from left to right to form an actual “slit scan” image
This can be automated by tools like e.g. ImageMagick and the longer your initial video was, the wider your image will be. In fact, the width of your slit scan image will have exactly the same amount of pixels as your initial video’s frame number.
Now, to go one step further you can proceed for all the other vertical lines of your images and create one slit scan image for each particular set of vertical lines. This will give you a set of as many slit scan images as your initial video was wide in pixels. Combining that set of slit scan images to a video (this time exactly as in a time lapse) your result can look like this.

Roger Bansemer

[James Houghtaling]

That generally sounds like what I figured was happening but that certainly isn’t anything you would try manually…lol. I’m sure a good script writer could figure a way to do this in Vegas with lots of tracks… one for each vertical row of pixels… can vegas handle 1440 tracks? LOL..

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My Hardware:
Core i7 2.67GHz; Nvidia GTX580, 12 gig RAM Win7 64bit.

My Software:
Vegas Pro V11 with Boris Continuum Complete 8, VASST Ultimate S; Bluff Titler; AE5; PhotoPaint and other stuff.

[Michael Sharpe]

You could export a image-sequence from Vegas to Photoshop and get that 1 pixel slit however you would need a lot of automation (actions) to do it in a timely fashion? Then import the sequence back into your project.

http://www.youtube.com/user/fuzonacid

[Roger Bansemer]

I’m not understanding this very well. Is there a Youtube video that goes into this process with more detail. I’d love to try it.

[Michael Sharpe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAKcCJtY7Ys

This is a way I’m not familiar with as I remeber being able to export an image sequence but either way once it’s in Photoshop you can do many things and use batch processing to apply your editing to every single frame automatically. There is a one pixel selection tool in photoshop.

No clue how this program works https://amnonp5.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/eternalism-the-art-of-slitscanning/

http://www.youtube.com/user/fuzonacid

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